Organizing Web Informat

[Heinrich C. Kuhn]

Roxanne Missingham <R.Missingham at dwe.csiro.au> wrote on 
Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:58 amongst other things worth reading:

> I am delighted to hear George Porter suggest that authors are not 
> the most appropriate document indexers!!  This is not to denigrate the 
> knowledge of authors about their subject but to acknowledge that both 
> motivation and knowledge of the most relevant indexing thesauri (eg MESH
> is not suitable for indexing of ecology material) is a specialist task.

You are certainly right: authors are not the most appropriate 
document indexers. But authors helped by specialists in indexing
might be able to do some indexing that can improve the precision
offered by saerch engine searches by quite a bit.

Heinrich C. Kuhn
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